The Partially Examined Life | Partially Examined Life #335: Aristotle on Fundamental Explanations (Part Two) @ThePartiallyExaminedLife | Uploaded 7 months ago | Updated 7 minutes ago
Continuing from youtu.be/s2WgIq_xRCI on Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 1. We get seriously into Aristotle's four types of causation and how previous philosophers in leaving out one or most of these made a mistake. This includes a critique of Platonic forms, which as eternal, unchanging patterns can't actually explain why change occurs in the world.
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Continuing from youtu.be/s2WgIq_xRCI on Aristotle's Metaphysics, book 1. We get seriously into Aristotle's four types of causation and how previous philosophers in leaving out one or most of these made a mistake. This includes a critique of Platonic forms, which as eternal, unchanging patterns can't actually explain why change occurs in the world.
Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and bonus content including a supporter-exclusive Closereads/part 3 drilling into the argument against Platonic forms in Aristotle's Metaphysics.